Xavier Clifford Nady VI is an American professional baseball outfielder and first baseman who is a free agent. Nady has played in MLB for the New York Mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Arizona Diamondbacks, Washington Nationals, San Francisco Giants, and the San Diego Padres.
The St. Louis Cardinals originally drafted Nady in the 4th round of the 1997 Major League Baseball Draft after he was named Northern California Player of the Year in his senior year of high school. Nady attended University of California, Berkeley, where he set the all-time Pac-10 Conference record for career slugging percentage for the California Golden Bears baseball team.